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(No Model) J. K. UPHAM.

HAT SWEAT.

No. 341,616. Patented May 11, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH K. UPHAM, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

HAT-SWEAT iJLJElCIFICATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 341,616, dated May 11, 1886.

(No model.)

.To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LJosEPH K. UPHAM, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county of New York, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hat-Sweats, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention "relates to improvements in sweat-bands for hats and caps and the objects of my improvements are to render the hatsweat adjustable in length and diameter and permit the hats provided therewith to be fitted in an instant to differentsized heads. I attain these objects by the construction illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side viewof a hat-sweat constructed in accordance with my invention, a portion of the outer sweat and water-proof rim being broken away and removed to show the adjustable metallic band and the clasps uniting its ends. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the rear portion of the same hat-sweat, on a larger scale, showing the elastic gore uniting the ends of the sweat-band. Fig. 3 is a side view of a portion of the sweat-band and of the metallic band with modified fastenings uniting them. Fig. 4 is a top view of the metallic adjustable band. Figs. 5, 6, and 7show modified forms of metal bandsand the modes of uniting them.

Similar letters refer to si milar parts throughout the several views.

The sweat-band A is made of leather, or of any other suitable material, and has its ends united by means of a gore of elastic webbing, B, containing threads of india-rubber laid in horizontal rows one above the other.

To give to the sweatband the proper length, and give thereto the necessary support to fit different-sized heads, there is connected to the sweat-band by suitable means a narrow band, 0, preferably of sheet metal, having its ends united by a suitable clasp that has sufficient frictional adhesion therewith to retain the ends of the band 0 connected in any position that they may be set relatively to each other. For the purpose of uniting the ends, I prefer to have them overlap each other and united by one or more clasps, D, formed of short strips of sheet metal passed across and made to encircle the two ends of the band C, as shown in Figs. 1 and t, the ends of the clasping-bands D being either soldered together or compressed to produce the necessary friction upon theband C; but other welhknown clasps may be used for the same purpose.

To increase the permanency of the adj ustment of the ends of the band C, said band may be crimped, as shown at c in Fig. 5, and the corrugation become interlocked under the pressure of the adjoining clasp D. Protuberances of various forms may also be formed upon one end of the band C, to enter corresponding depressions made in another portion of said band. Perforations 0* may also be made in one end of theband O and the opposite end reduced in width and passed through them, as

.s'hown in Fig. 6; and many other means may be used to produce the desired adhesion of the ends of thebaud 0.

Although I prefer a flat metal band, C, as above stated, it may also be made of wire. as shown in Fig. .7, or of wood, leather. or of textile substance suitably stiffened at the clamped ends.

To connect the band C with the sweat-band A,various means may be used; but I prefer to use a supplementary sweat-band, A, about half the width of the band A, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2. This band A is preferably cemented (but may be stitched) to the lower edge of the band A, the line of cementation a being for about one-eighth to one-fourth inch wide. In the upper portion of the band A" vertical slits a? are made, through which the band 0 is passed in and out, as shown, and the ends are united by the clasps or other frictional surfaces, above described. By these means the band C is hidden behind the sweatband A and does not marits surface.

Other means may be used to secure the band i G, or of wrinklingit while reducing the length of said adjustable band.

To the outer side of the supplementary band 5 eyelets have been used to connect the ends of A and sweat-band A, adjoining their lower edge, is secured, as usual, by stitches, the doubled 0il-silk band A, containing the reed a.

I am aware that elastic cords passed through 3. The combination of a sweat-baud and an adjustable band, C, surrounding the sweatband and having its ends connected by positive means, as set forth, with means for securing said band C to the sweat-band, substantially as described.

4. The combination of asweat-band, A, having its ends united by elastic webbing, with a supplementary sweat-band, A and an adj ustable band, 0, havingits ends clasped together and secured to said band A substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH K. UPHAM.

Vitnesses:

XVILLIAM M. FORSYTH, E. E. MAssoN. 

